New Patient Monitoring Device

Thank you very much, nerdtonurse? for that insight! We'll keep that in mind.
What we're working on is a device that's not too sensitive i.e. reducing the number of false alarms, because that way the device loses credibility. Moreover, our device is designed to have a wireless feature that will notify nurses on their terminals and raise red flags whenever a patient is crashing. We know that that might result in a havoc of bells and whistles but (a) we're trying to increase the accuracy (reducing false positives) (b) transmit concise messages to nurse terminals or common status screens of what patients need attention along with a urgency level (like "yellow" or "red").

@canoehead: Thanks for your interest. The way we're different from devices like GE Dash 3000 and Hoana's Life-Bed is that (a) the embedded algorithm is faster and more complex so that it can detect declining health patterns extremely quickly and accurately (b) the device is meant for patients who are mobile in general words and not necessarily bed-ridden; thus its light and portable (c) it's cost-effective; can't give a price figure right now but it's definitely not in the order of thousands as other devices are (d) it's meant to take a limited set of physiological inputs. we talked to medical directors and they suggested that constant vigilance on heart rate, respiration rate, pulse ox and NIBP can be quite useful to detect how the patient is faring.

Please do let me know if you have any other suggestions and featuers you would like to see in such a device. What level of detail in messaging (to nurse terminals) would you like ? Do you believe that early detection of patient distress is a big problem in hospitals these days ? What are the alternatives to this device that are currently in practice where work ?

I think that's an excellent point , bagladyrn, thank you for raising that. I completely agree with you on the point that every patient's circumstance is different and just like you mentioned, parameters might be biased because of some med being given to them, the result of which is an 'expected change' to patient's vitals which is being interpreted by the device as a red flag.

For that purpose, we are planning to introduce sensitivity controls on the device to tweak the thresholds of when the device needs to start raising alarms. However, we're still trying to figure out what would be the unit of measure to represent such sensitivity and the various risks associated with it (e.g. patient might tamper with controls, wrong thresholds were set by the nurse etc.) Nevertheless, that's a good point and we will definitely take that in consideration. Thank you !

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